Summary of the Course
Text Book and Printed Resources
Prerequisites
Grading
Teaching Method

Global IT Project  (CID Framework)
Week by Week Schedule

Summary of the course:

This course introduces students to global information systems. The course is designed for students who desire to understand the way managers, teams, and organizations develop, use and manage global information systems. IS/IT coordination issues for international operations are vastly more complex than purely domestic ones because they involve all the issues of domestic operations plus many additional difficulties, such as, time, distance, cost and culture. The course covers a range of global IS/IT applications and how they are deployed in global organizations.
After completing this course students should have:

• A better understanding of the variety of global information management issues facing managers, teams and individuals in organizations
• A better understanding of issues involved in building a success global software team.
• Students will be able to conduct a national IT assessment for any country and analyze the implications for global organization.
  
  

Textbooks and printed resources:

1. Timberjack Parts: Software Selection, HBS 9-398-085

2. Li & Fung (A): Internet Issues' HBS 301-009

3. Submarino.Com: The challenges of B2C in Latin America

4. Carmel, E. and Agarwal, R. Tactical Approaches for Alleviating Distance in Global Software Development, IEEE Software March / April 2001

5. Erran, Carmel "Global Software Teams: Collaborating Across Borders and Time Zones" Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA

Pre-Requisites:

IS Core knowledge

Group project 30%
Individual Assignments I 20%
Individual Assignments II 20%
Participation 10%
Mid-term paper 20%
Total 100%

Grading Scale: 92 - 100 A 90 - 91 A- 88 - 89 B+ 82 - 87 B 80 - 81 B- 78 - 79 C+ 72 - 77 C 70 - 71 C- 68 - 69 D+ 62 - 67 D 60 - 61 D- 0 - 59 F

Teaching Method:

A combination of teaching methods will be used (lecturing, guest speakers, group presentations, etc).

Introduction 1

Chapters 13

Class 2 

Lecture Notes

Class 3 

Lecture Notes

Global Software Teams
Crossing Borders

Case study 1 discussions: Timberjack parts

Class 4

Lecture Notes

Assessment of Global Software Teams

Class 5

Lecture Notes

Guest Speaker

CTO AT Keaeney

Problems of Global Software Teams

Term paper due

Class 6 

Lecture Notes

Guest Rich

Cultural differences

One page group project's progress report due.

Class 7

Lecture Notes

Solutions to the Global Software Teams Problems

Telecommunications Infrastructure
Collaborative Technology

Class 8

Lecture Notes

Development Methodology
Architecture and Task Allocation 

Class 9

Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes LIM

Guest Speaker

Building the Dispersed Team through Trust, Communication, and Personal Bridges

Class 10